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I recently spoke to someone who knows Ben Carson professionally. And this person confirmed that however weird he may be and however cloudy his affect, Carson’s a really smart guy – which is what you’d expect from a top of his field brain surgeon. But I’m really wondering if it’s possible that it’s just Carson’s hands that are really smart. Because man, this latest thing, even I’m flabbergasted. Carson says he’s really not convinced by the archeological elite about the pyramids being built as tombs. He thinks Joseph built them to store grain.

Now … biblical literalism aside, I’m pretty certain that with the exception of the burial chambers, the pyramids are solid. They’re definitely not hollow. Does Carson think they’re hollow?

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